The Alpha’s Pregnant Mate: Surprise Pregnancy Shifter Romance (Alpha Wolf Island Book 8) by Kayla Wolf

Author:Kayla Wolf [Wolf, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12 - Laurent

Laurent pored over the document for three hours, not sure whether he was more impressed or infuriated that he couldn’t find a single error in it. No wonder Rhietta had looked so smug when she’d handed it to him. It was maddening, how good she was at protocol when she chose to make use of it. It only made her lapses in decorum all the more insulting, because he had incontrovertible evidence that she knew better. She was choosing to be an over-emotional mess with a reckless disregard for command structure and professional boundaries. That was so much worse than simple incompetence.

Still, he had to accept—grudgingly—that the terms she’d proposed were reasonable, especially given the complexity of the situation. It was a model for a kind of intermingling of the packs, while still keeping each Alpha’s rights as leader of their own wolves intact. She’d laid out a proposal for the next three months, at which point a thorough revision of terms would be scheduled based on how things had gone. The packs would cohabitate here, in what seemed to be the safest place for a settlement, giving his wolves time to recover from the physical and psychological damage associated with the loss of their homes. And both packs would share in the effort to figure out a strategy to address the risk of wildfire destroying yet another settlement.

He made a few of his own notes, of course, minor revisions to the proposal, but he could tell he was going through the motions. The proposal was entirely fair to both parties, and why wouldn’t it be? Rhietta cared every bit as much for his wolves as she did for her own. That soft heart of hers would be her undoing, he knew, but his exasperation was tempered by the knowledge that it was her soft heart that had saved the lives of his pack that night. He’d been awake for a short while before Rhietta had come to see him, and he’d been well and truly briefed on the situation by the steely-eyed Dasha, who with characteristic bluntness had made it clear that he and his pack owed their lives to Rhietta’s quick thinking.

It wasn’t long before he was on his feet again. Thanks to Dasha’s ministrations, the wounds he’d sustained were healing well. At any rate, it hadn’t been the wounds that were responsible for how long he’d been unconscious. He’d spent a lot of strength on that last, desperate blast of magic to turn back the demons, and that kind of life force took more time to replenish than flesh took to heal. Still, he was well enough to take a look around the settlement—this strange new place that his pack would be calling home, at least for the next few months.

It was well-situated, that much was obvious. With the thick jungle cleared from hilltop, they had an easily defensible position, and one that was within reasonable distance of a water source, though he made a mental note that the digging of a well ought to be made a priority in the medium-term.

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